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The Classic Car Boot Sale pops up in Hastings this weekend, offering all manner of vintage fashions and artefacts - all sold from the boots of historic vehicles. The forecast is good, too, so the seaside location is just perfect.

If you’re dismayed by the traditional car boot sale in a muddy field or windswept municipal car park, the Classic Car Boot sale is for you. It’s a place to see and be seen, with the majority of people dressed in their best vintage fashions for the occasion.

What's more, entry only costs £5 for a festival brimming with diversity that runs from 10am to 6pm on Saturday July 8 and Sunday July 9.

It’s also a place where collectors of vintage vinyl records can spend hours thumbing through many hundreds of boxes of old LPs.

Classic vinyl galoreCredit:
Will Slater

Not only that, there’s a wealth of top-notch meals and drink supplied by some of the capital’s finest food wagons, impromptu musical performances, street theatre and all manner of vintage fun.

The event is the brainchild of designer Wayne Hemingway, founder of the Red Or Dead label and champion of all things vintage. He is also passionate about cars.

Wayne Hemingway

He said: “The CCBS offers something for everyone with the mix of fabulous free entertainment, a host of stalls offering an eclectic mix of vintage, upcycled and uniquely designed goodies. It is a place to celebrate music, food, fashion, design and, of course, the eye candy that is classic cars, bikes and commercial vehicles.”

“It’s really taken off, I didn’t know there would be so many people with classic cars and good stuff to sell. It continues to expand, with this new event in Hastings [after a highly successful staging at King's Cross in London in April] and one in the north.”

I went along for the first time last year and was blown away by the sheer fun of the event. The cars alone are as good as you’ll find in the average museum, from British classics of the Seventies such as Ford Cortinas to spectacular chromed Cadillacs that typify US cars of the Fifties - with the added attraction that they’ve been driven to the event and you can talk to the owners.

Commercial vehicles sell sustenance as well as old clothes and artefactsCredit:
Will Slater

There are also buses and commercial vehicles, many of them equipped to serve food or craft beers.